My 3rd Rez Day in Second Life

Today (31/10/09) marks my 3rd year Rez Day in Second Life. 3 years have passed by and I have loved every moment of it. In days that’s 1095 days old in SL since I first registered for (TSL) = SL back on 31st October 2006. I transferred to the Main Grid last December and since then it’s been awesome.  I love this time of year because it’s Halloween and it’s lot’s of fun  in SL. I still ask myself the question why I registered on Halloween, hahahaha. Perhaps you could tell me? *giggles*

Thanks to my friends, fans and everybody else for following my adventures over the years. I love you all! :D

3rd year SL anniversary celebrations start now!

Previous Rez Days

1st Rez Day in 2007 – LINK + LINK

2nd Rez Day in 2008

2009

I love Second Life!

It’s been an amazing journey so far

Let the adventures continue!

Happy Halloween 2009

Storing Second Life Incident Reports, September 2009 Stats

Tyche Shepherd reports on storing Second Life Incident Reports and she has published many awesome graphs of her findings on sluniverse.com called what did the naughty people do?. There is alot of interesting data and information in this thread. It’s worth checking out.

There is an Official LL Incident Report page on the SL website which displays the top 25 recent disciplinary actions taken by the in-world Goverance Team. Don’t forget to go to the Help menu and Choose Report Abuse to report incidents etc always!

In total I now have data which seems complete from 7th Jun 2007 up to the current time, at the moment this comes to 21, 665 published incidents.

Firstly I should point out published Incident Reports are only those AR’s which have been resolved and where a warning or suspension has been made. It doesn’t seem to cover bans or suspensions due to account issues or the other strange reasons Lindens use to suspend people.They also cover Teen Grid as well as the Main Grid.

Big fall in published incident reports at the beginning of this year.

There are 91 unique types of violations in total, the most common was Community Standard: Assault, Scripted Objects which covers 3654 incidents

Very little suprises with Public Help Islands, Sandboxes and Info-bubs dominating the list, with No Specific Region being the most common. Help Island Public hosts over 4% of all published incidents.

52% of published incidents result in a Warning, the rest in a suspension of 1 to 14 days.

There were only 2 published copyright infringement violations which resulted in a ban of 14 days (there were 17 in total across the period)

I must stress that these figures are only the Published Incident Reports, people say there are plenty of resolved AR’s which don’t make the Blotter and they certainly don’t include any bans which do occur or suspensions for other reasons (account issues, activity which triggers money laundering detection etc) so it’s difficult to draw concrete conclusions about the whole AR process from them .

Great job, interesting stats. :)

Now over to you, what do you think about the graph data ?

Former TG regions, groups, cool places on the MG

This is a quick easy guide for TG residents transferring very soon to the Main Grid or Teens that have already celebrated their 18th birthday in Second Life. There are regions which are former-TG regions that have been moved over and created on the Main Grid. There are many popular former-TG created TSL groups on the Main Grid to join which are either free to join or ask for a invite for. There are guides located around Baffin to click on to find out about what the MG has to offer. Note: 13-17yrs should be on the TG and 18+ on the MG.

If you are teen on the TG and turning 18 years old shortly, you will need to send a support ticket to transfer to the MG, send in your ID, LL will review your ticket, and you will be transferred on your birthday. When you arrive your groups, friends list and landmarks will be automatically removed/deleted. Your inventory transfers over with you along with your L$. It’s going to be hard leaving your friends behind and you can always keep in contact through messenger services etc.

Check out my Welcome to Second Life Flickr collection

• Happy 18th Birthday and welcome to the Main Grid.

• Make yourself at home here while you’re finding your way around the Main Grid.

Locations

Baffin – Teen Grid Transfer Station – Jade Lily
This is where our youngest Residents come to celebrate their transition to the Main Grid. Celebrate the spirit of Second Life!

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Baffin/128/128/2

Okarthel & Thurkear – Sylver Bu
furry,furries,fox,dragon,kinzart,kzk,sylver,bu,tiger,wolf,thel,avatar,av,avian,canine,feline,anthroxtacy,ax,forbidden,memories,forbiddenmemories

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Okarthel/136/130/23

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Thurkear/122/106/48

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Arcaniss/142/143/24

Dernier Cri – Asuka Martin

Skins, hair, apparel, shoes, accessories, fashion

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dernier%20Cri/129/134/28

Groups

Teen Grid Transfers
Slowly taking over MG…one teen at a time!

TG Survivors
For all the people who, after their experience on the TG, are still up and kicking.
Also, for all the cool people who want to help them feel integrated to the MG.
Group for events and hangout, though suggestions are always welcome.
Just transferred/feel left out? Drop an IM to any of the admins to join!
(Non-commercial)

TG Transfers
A group to ease teens into the Main Grid, help them find their way upon entering mature regions, etc.

Old TG Friends
If you have ever been on TG this group is for you, Everyone in this group has at one ime been on Teen Grid. Founder Transfered Feb, 2008

Global Kids Allies
This is a group for those allied with Global Kids <www.GlobalKids.org/olp> and its work in Second Life, primarily to support the GK island in the teen grid.

Recommend Places to visit

Grendel’s Children
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Avaria%20Tor/134/134/302
Avatars, Dragon, Gryphon, Werewolf ,Animal ,Demon, Dinosaur, pets, skins and more! Creatures abound! Low priced, high quality! For Grendel !

Luskwood
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lusk/215/170/62
Since 2003, Secondlife’s oldest community. Run by furries , but NOT furry only. Anyone is welcome, as long as you’re considerate. Furry Avatars as well.

Prim Hearts
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Prim%20Hearts/11/29/28
Amusement Park in Second Life

International Spaceflight Museum
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport%20Bravo/50/81/23
Spaceport Bravo, one of SciLands member ISM’s islands, has the Vehicle Assembly Building & the Orbiter Processing Facility. The ISM is totally volunteer built and donation supported. Not a NASA activity.  BravoPort.

NCI Kuula – New Citizens Incorporated
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kuula/55/168/29
New Player, New Resident, Newbie, Noob, Beginner, Help, Basics, Information, Info, Questions, Freebies, Free Stuff, Clothing, Sandbox, Hangout, Newsstand, Ginny Gremlin Park, Mall, Events, Tutorials, Classes, Class, Education, Learn

the Shelter
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Isabel/48/228/81
A haven for those new to SL

Here
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Here/64/83/38
Video tutorials! FREE textures! Watermelons! Come, visit, enjoy. ~*~ KEYWORDS: video tutorial tip trick game world 3d online virtual avatar screencast help machinima love sl watermelon learn education knowledge vidtut tutorial teach fun x

Greenies Home Rezzable
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Greenies%20Home%20Rezzable/128/128/2
<presented by Rezzable>  Join Us! Green the Grid!  Greenies, greenie, light wave, spac, flying saucer, disco lives, giant, megaprim, skates, avatars, fly, fun, wacky, kooky, best sim in sl, wonder of sl

Mauve Public Sandbox
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Mauve/112/112/34
SL Orientation, Building Tutorials, Help for Newbies, Classes, Free Stuff. Advertise your business on the advertising billboard. Advertising space for rent in the oldest and most popular sandbox.

Linden Village
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kirkby/177/209/45
Explore where Linden Lab Employees Live and Meet in Second Life.  Click on the kiosk at the landing point for more information.

Dance Island
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dance%20Island/118/101/22
LIVE DJ artists & Live music > 24h-7days  LIVE !!!!

Don’t Forget

• There’s more fun and cool places to visit on the MG…Click on Search > Showcase tab. (http://secondlife.com/showcase/)
• Visit MG Office Hours hosted by Linden Lab:  http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Office_Hours
• Click on MAP to browse through thousands of regions.
• Buy stuff on Xstreet SL: https://www.xstreetsl.com/
• Just IM me in-world for cool locations, guides or info and I’ll send them over to you to check out!
  

If I’ve missed anything out, feel free to comment and I hope this guide has been helpful for you.

Happy Second Life adventures!
Enjoy!

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SL Feeds needs your feedback

I created my SL Feeds portal on 9th, March 2009, to share 24/7 SL community stuff with everyone, including SL News, SL Fashion, SL stats, SL Videos, TSL news and lot’s more. Since then my SL Feeds portal has been featured on New World Notes: Good Compilation of Second Life Blog Feeds which is just great to see. The popularity of my SL Feeds portal has grown alot and now my SL Feeds portal is featured 2nd in Google Results when you type “SL Feeds” in. The aim is to get no.1 spot sometime later this year which will be nice.

SL Feeds came out of testing on July 20th and now is version 1.0.  I’ll be expanding and adding more in upcoming weeks and months with exciting new SL tools and more SL RSS feeds. Do you have any feature suggestions or want your SL blog & SL website to be featured on SL Feeds portal? Please CONTACT ME, your all most welcome to submit your reviews. Feel free to comment on this post or IM me in-world even.

Thanks!

Spread the word about SL Feeds! I recommend it! :D

 

200 days on the Main Grid

It’s been 200 days since I first transfered over to the Main Grid and celebrated my 18th birthday. 201 days ago was my last day on the Teen Gridwhen I took my final tour around cool places in Teen Second Life. I remember doing a TG Transfer countdown  on my blog, counting down the remaining days I had left hehehe. On my birthday date I didn’t log into TSL as such and in the afternoon I was successfully moved across and my main grid experience started. I really do miss my friends and life on the Teen Grid and the fun times will never be forgotten. It was great to meet up with my Ex-TGer friends that transfered before me.

When I first arrived on the MG I was taken to the Teen Grid Transfer Station located in Baffin where Kate Linden spent time with me and invited me into many awesome SL groups and things I should know on the Main Grid. I remember saying OMG OMG OMG to myself when I looked at the Map, Events Tab and Showcase/popular landmarks because there was hundreds of regions, events and things to do. On the Teen Grid the showcase places were broken, a smaller grid and only a few events actually happened every day.

I remember being teleported over to Grasmere which is Linden Village region where I met many new friends, Lindens and SL Mentors. I was given tons of landmarks, notecards and SL guides which was really nice of them all to do that. I then went on a grand tour for a few hours visiting great places in Second Life including The Shelter, The Corn Field, AM Radio regions, Here island, Greenies SL and many more. I’m looking forward to my 3rd Rezz Day (3 years milestone) which is October 31st 2009. 164 days left until my next birthday and then that will mark my first full year on the MG. WoooT

Since December 2008 I’ve seen a high peak in traffic (visitors and new records) set my blog, flickr stream, twitter page, plurk page and even on facebook which is great. I’ve been in the news headlines alot since my transfer date and even before that. Earlier this year I created a SL feeds portal,  SL Historical Locations and my Linden Hunting sets have been very popular indeed.  Check out my SL collection for more awesome adventures in SL. This year I’ve created my own new residents guide page on my blog, created a SL Metrics page and created a ton of new SL resources on my SL Tutorial page.

 200 days is a big milestone for me!

 

My most interesting and favourite moments so far

• My birthday party on the MG
• 24 music I-World Festival
• Winterfaire snowball fighting and snowman contest
• Been given christmas presents
• Lindens ontop of the christmas tree 08
• Linden Bear hunting trip
• Visiting Office Hours & Eureka Tour 2009 trips
• SL Valentines Day 2009
• Dunk-a-Linden 2009
• Bunny Jam
• Volunteer Appreciation Day 2009
• SL6B adventures & Obsk Adventures
• Check out my latest pics here

 

I can’t wait for whatever comes next. I will continue to share helpful things with the SL community, take part in projects, mentor, explore and having fun with my friends. Thanks for reading my diary of the past 200 days and stay tuned for new blog posts.  

 

Check out SL Valentines 2009 Snapshots

I hope you all had a great Valentines Day for 2009 and had a fun time at the Valentines Islands. Check out the latest cool interesting snapshots from the community now. (G) = Flickr group

• My SL Valentines 2009 set
• Recent snapshots of SL Valentines 2009
• Second Life Celebrations (G)
• Valentines in Second Life (G)
• Hugsville for Teens 2009

Did you take any snapshots this year ?

Send your SL Valentines Day snapshots to the SL Valentines Flickr groups TODAY! :)

SL Valentines Day 2009

Valentine’s Day, Saturday Feb. 14 - Shedule - 

• MG: Isle of View and Isle of ViewToo >  7-9 AM and 5-7 PM PST for Kiss-A-Linden

• TG:  Hugsville for Teens from 3-5 PM PST.

• Watch out for Cupid Linden

• Valentine’s Day Surprises 

Teen Second Life Educational Resouces 2009

Subject to change!

Second Life: Educators Working with Teens
http://www.simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life:_Educators_Working_with_Teens

Teen Second Life Educational Projects
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Second_Life#Teen_Second_Life_Educational_Projects

TSL Academic Research
http://simteach.com/wiki/index.php?title=Second_Life_Education_Wiki#Academic_Research

Educatorsandteens — Educators working with Teens (13-17)
https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/educatorsandteens

Consent ascertainsi
https://www.ascertainsi.com/secondlife/bgConsent.asp

Teen Grid Clearance: Here’s the deal…
http://tslclear.blogspot.com/

2007: Blue and Philip Linden present on GK island about past, present, and future of TSL
http://www.holymeatballs.org/2007/03/sl_blue_and_philip_linden_pres.html

Teen Second Life Official Website
http://teen.secondlife.com/

Teen Second Life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Second_Life

SLurl.com showing MG and TG (January 2009)

On Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Linden Lab made new improvements to the mapping of SLurl.com. This upgraded version, let’s both grids see each other face-to-face, to check out and compare the differences between the two. The Teen Grid is now shown on the SLurl.com, located far east, in the south part. That means now you get a closer and in-depth look at the way TG is structured and same to TG residents viewing the massive map of the MG.

If you’re interested in maps in Second Life, check out my resouces and create your own maps today to share with residents. :)

MG Maps

TG Maps

SLurl

Images of Agni

Scroll back in my past posts, to view Second Life Map Resouces 2009. Or you can check out the Official Second Life Blog and SL Forums for the latest resident feedback on the improvements that LL made this month. :)

Bringing you the latest cool stuff! :D

Second Life Maps Resources – 2009

SL MAPS FOR YOU

SLurl - Offers to create direct links to any place in the game. Location-Based Linking in Second Life.

Learn how the World Map works in Second Life? - Get started by watching this video tutorial.

Second Life Postcard Map - Interesting map for SL.

SL Maps – Maps of Second Life. Compilation of older Linden Lab maps of the grid, resources for interpreting the Magellan Linden “Dingbat” maps, the ability to see a map of the grid for a certain date, flash maps of grid expansion, and links to similar fansites.

Mappa Novus – Provides advanced maps and search tools of the Second Life grid.

Second Life charts - Latest statistics from the grid.

Webmap API - The Second Life Webmap API allows you to embed Second Life Maps onto your web pages. Enough talk, lets jump into the code.

Webmap API Wiki - The Second Life Webmap API allows you to embed Second Life Maps onto your web pages. Enough talk, lets jump into the code

Sim Neighbours - Sim Neighbours is a site to look up which sims are sharing a server.

SpinMass – Create your own Sculpty maps.

Second Life BigMap - Grid Maps

Pirandello Second Life Map Viewer - Using the Second Life Mapping API.

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Images of Agni &  Agni Continents -Created by SignpostMarv Martin.

Updated Maps for the New Year - Fixes in the “LL Mainland Continents” and “Sansara & Heterocera” maps for 2009.

Images of Second Life Maps - On Flickr.

MG Maps 2009 - New for 2009 – Enjoy!!!

TSL Maps - Interesting maps of Teen Second Life and more!

TG Bay City Map - Check it out

SL4B Sim Map & SL5B Sim Map – What will the map look like for SL6B?

Bay City Map & Parks and Recreation Directory - Parcel map.

 

Enjoy! :)